I posted yesterday in response to the Quadra 700 boot problems.

Does this email message help?

It's under http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/

cheers

bruce


Mark Benson <markbenson@mac.com> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:21:55 +0000
> From: Mark Benson <markbenson@mac.com>
> Subject: Installer 1.1g won't mount 'root' partition
> To: Mac 68k NetBSD <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
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> 
> I have a small problem. I am trying to install NetBSD mac-68k on my 
> Mystic Colour Classic. For those that don't understand what that is, 
> it's a Colour Classic with a better board in - in this case an LC575 - 
> and a few other tweaks like 68MB of RAM and a VGA video mod.
> Anyway. The LC575 is supported by 1.4 or later, the 575 board I have 
> has a fully operational; FPU enabled 040 on, yet I have run into a 
> problem. I installed a big hard disk (4GB Seagate Medalist 7200rpm) so 
> I'd have plenty of room. I partitioned off 2GB *after* (significant 
> maybe?) the Mac OS partitions as 'A/UX Root&Usr' then 41MB as 'A/UX 
> Swap'. Then i did the usual MKFS formatting of the partitions. I then 
> ran the installer but it failed on the mount_fs operation. The text 
> output showed it found the 2 partitions but it won't have any of it. 
> Also I am running this in OS 8.1 - is that a factor?
> 
> I'm a bit stuck. So any help os greatly appreciated.
> 
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